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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Out of Inodes Despite Free Disk Space

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 December 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-requests — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-requests — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1754-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18074 Upstream summary: The Requests package before 2.20.0 for Python sends an HTTP Authorization header to an http URI upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, […]

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How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments

In this the cloud provider article, the system administration and application deployment streamlining library “Fabric” is our subject. We will learn how to install this wonderful tool, as well as see how easy things can become by simply automating mundane management tasks that would otherwise require jumping through hoops with bash hacks and hard-to-maintain, complex scripts.

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How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7

How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7 User and group management is one of the most fundamental administrative tasks on any Linux system. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the tools for creating, modifying and maintaining user accounts are robust, flexible and follow the standard POSIX conventions. Whether […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libct4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libct4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2020:0741-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13508 Upstream summary: FreeTDS through 1.1.11 has a Buffer Overflow. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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How to Install MongoDB on Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MongoDB on Debian 8

MongoDB is a free and open-source NoSQL document database used commonly in modern web applications. This tutorial will help you set up MongoDB on your server for use in a production application environment. You’ll install MongoDB and configure firewall…

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SLES 15 — eog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — eog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 5 December 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2532-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7447 CVE-2016-6855 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in the gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf function in gdk/gdkcairo.c in GTK+ before 3.9.8, as used in eom, gnome-photos, eog, gambas3, thunar, pinpoint, […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 8

Redis provides two high-availability mechanisms: Sentinel for automatic failover on a primary-replica setup, and Cluster for horizontal partitioning across multiple nodes. Both are production-grade solutions supported on RHEL 8 through the EPEL 8 repository or directly from the Redis package. Understanding when to use each helps you design a topology that meets your durability and […]

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